Fireworks - Bedford Rugby Club - 07-11-08

Some images captured from the rear garden of my very good friend Phillipa (Thanks oodles P! Yummy food too!). The garden abuts the display arena and we were actually closer to the display than the massed crowd attending in the grounds of the event! There were lots of trees and some of the images include these in the foreground but other fireworks detonated high enough to capture them without foreground. All images captured at a maximum of 5 seconds exposure @ F10 (tripod mounted obviously). I cannot say exactly what the exposures were because, on many of them, I was using a black card to cover the lens before the shutter action had completed when some of the fireworks were brighter than others.

Post production using Photoshop, Photo Impact, CompuPic Pro and Canon Digital Photo Professional. Oh, and if you enjoy this sort of creative stuff, check out this website where you can find really cool artwork by a talented young illustrator :-)